Isaiah 30:24
22 So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
23 Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
25 And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26 The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
- KJV
- The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
- WEB
- The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
- ASV
- the oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
- DARBY
- and the oxen and the asses that till the ground shall eat salted provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
- BLB
- and the oxen and the donkeys working the ground will eat seasoned fodder that has been winnowed with the shovel and the pitchfork.
- ÅB
- Og oksene og eslene som arbeider jorden, skal spise saltet blandingsfôr, som kastes med skuffe og kasteskovl.
- OTB
- Oksene og eslene som arbeider jorden skal spise krydret fôr, spredt ut med gaffel og spade.
- B1930
- Og oksene og asenene som arbeider jorden, skal ete saltet blandingsfôr, som kastes med skuffe og kasteskovl.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 45:6
For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 25:4
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
Read in contextLuke 3:17
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Read in context1 Samuel 8:12
He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.
Read in contextMatthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Read in context1 Corinthians 9:9–10
For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
Read in contextExodus 34:21
Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 21:4
bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.
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